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Article: Family found in rabid-bat case
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2003
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DES MOINES (AP) - A family who dropped off a dead bat at a state
lab was located Monday after the bat tested positive for rabies,
state health officials said.
"The family apparently heard some broadcast news account over the
noon hour," said Kevin Teale, spokesman for the Iowa Department of
Public Health.
The family is from Riverside near Iowa City. Teale did not release
the family's name.
Teale said the bat was dropped off at the University of Iowa
Hygienic Laboratory Thursday, but the lab had no information, such as
a name or phone number, to contact the family.
"They apparently called a veterinarian in Riverside and the clinic
said to bring it on up to the hygienic lab, so that's what ...